• NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announces the addition of imagery from Vantor to its Satellite Data Explorer (SDX) data access and discovery tool. • The imagery, which was obtained by Vantor’s Legion satellites, comes from Vantor’s 125-plus petabyte imagery archive, which dates back to 1999. • The imagery from this archive contains a mix of panchromatic (black/white) and color imagery (up to 18 multispectral bands) and offers global coverage of up to 30 cm resolution. • There are three types of imagery available from this archive in SDX: System-Ready Level 1B Data | This data is idea for users who are looking to apply their own tools and models to fully process the data and extract the information that they need. • It comes with all bands, full bit-depth, and requires further processing to be ready for deriving downstream analytics. • This basic processing of this product offers an imagery product ready for custom orthorectification.

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  • NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program has added high‑resolution imagery from Vantor’s Legion satellites to its Satellite Data Explorer (SDX). The 125‑petabyte archive, dating back to 1999, offers 30‑cm resolution multispectral data (up to 18 bands) and global coverage. SDX now provides three processing levels: Level 1B (raw, user‑processed), Level 2A (orthorectified, ready for analytics), and Map‑Ready 3‑D (radiometrically calibrated, cartographically accurate). The addition expands SDX’s catalog of commercial Earth‑observation data, supporting applications from agriculture to disaster response, and aligns with NASA’s goal of delivering high‑quality commercial datasets to the research community.
  • NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program has added imagery from Vantor’s Legion satellites to its Satellite Data Explorer (SDX). The 125‑plus‑petabyte archive, dating back to 1999, offers global coverage at up to 30‑cm resolution with panchromatic and up to 18 multispectral bands. SDX now hosts three processing levels: Level 1B (raw, orthorectifiable), Level 2A (orthorectified, ready for analytics), and Map‑Ready 3‑D (radiometrically calibrated, cartographically accurate). The addition expands SDX’s utility for Earth‑observation users, supporting applications from agriculture to disaster response, and underscores CSDA’s goal of delivering high‑quality commercial data to NASA’s science community.

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